The War Between Data and Images

Data Visualization

William Playfair | Wheats and Wages | 1821

John Snow | Cholera Map | 1854

Florence Nightingale

Crimean War Deaths | 1863

Life Expectancy | 1861

Charles Joseph Minard | Napolean’s March (1812) | 1869

Eadweard Muybridge | Etienne Jules Marey | 1890s

Alphonse Bertillon | Francis Galton | 1890s

IBM / Charles and Ray Eames | Powers of Ten | 1977

Bernd and Hilla Becher | 1980-89http://www.c4gallery.com/artist/database/bernd-hilla-becher

Fred Wilson | Mining the Museum | 1993http://beautifultrouble.org/case/mining-the-museum/

Kim Dingle | United Shapes of America| 1990-91http://www.kimdingle.net/united-shapes-of-america.html

Aaron Koblin | Draw Me a Sheep | 2006http://www.thesheepmarket.com/

Meaghan Kombol | The Subway Lines| 2007

Kathy Prendergast | Lost | 1999

Bill Sullivan | Subway Turnstiles | 2004http://billsullivanworks.com/billsullivan/Turn1.html

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy | Band Rider Series | 2002http://www.mccoyspace.com/project/40/

Wisegeek | What Does 200 Calories Look Like? | 2002http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-200-calories-look-like.htm

Urban Data | Sky Mall Liberation| 2010http://ni9e.com/skymall_liberation.php

Nancy Burson | Composites | 1982 - 2011http://nancyburson.com/pages/fineart_pages/earlycomps.html

David Tinapple | The Face of TV | 2007http://www.davidtinapple.com/

Jason Salavon | The Playboy Centerfolds (The Decades)| 2007http://salavon.com/work/EveryPlayboyCenterfoldDecades/

Stamen Design | Mappr | 2004http://stamen.com/projects/mappr

Krazy Dad aka Jim Bumgardner | Flickr Color Pickr | 2006 http://jbum.com/

Stamen Design | Digg Swarm | 2005http://stamen.com/clients/digg

Martin Wattenberg & Fernanda Viegas | Baby Name Voyager | 2005 http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager

Martin Wattenberg & Fernanda Viegas | Many Eyes | 2007 http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/

Ben Fry | Zip Decode | 2004http://benfry.com/zipdecode/

Golan Levin| Secret Lives of Numbers | 2002http://www.turbulence.org/Works/nums/

Rob Seward| Death Death Death | 2002http://robseward.com/documentation/death_death_death/

Cassandra Jones | Eventide | 2004https://sites.google.com/site/cassandrac/eventide

Jer Thorp | Good Morning | 2009http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/goodmorning

IBM / Motion Theory| Data Anthem| 2010

Wolfram Alpha | facebook visualizer | 2010http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=facebook#

Ben Fry + Casey Reas| Processing http://www.processing.org